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01/04/2024
A concert by the Czech tenor Petr Nekoranec at the Bohemian National Hall in New York on Thursday evening will open the Year of Czech Music abroad. The concert will feature songs by Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček and Bohuslav Martinů. The event, organised by Czech Center New York in partnership with the Dvořák American Heritage Association, will also feature pianist Valeria Polunina.
The Year of Czech Music, which is held once a decade, on every year that ends on the number four, was first held in 1924, when it celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bedřich Smetana. In 2024 the celebrations will also commemorate other anniversaries, including that of Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček, and Josef Suk.
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01/04/2024
Friday will be mostly cloudy with occasional rain or snow showers. Day temperatures will range between 4 and 8 degrees Celsius.
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01/04/2024
Ivan Hašek has become the new coach of the Czech national football squad. He was unanimously elected to the post on Thursday by the Czech Football Association‘s executive committee.
The 60-year-old coach, who briefly led the national team in 2009, replaced Jaroslav Šilhavý. He will sign a contract until the end of the World Cup qualification, which takes place in November next year.
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01/04/2024
The Czech Republic’s 2023 state budget ended with a deficit of CZK 288.5 billion, Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura said on Thursday. It is the best economic result since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic but also the fourth worst result in the country’s history.
Meanwhile, Czechia’s state debt rose to a record CZK 3.111 trillion last year, compared to CZK 2.895 trillion in 2022, the Ministry of Finance announced.
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01/04/2024
Over twenty Czech crews are taking part in this year’s Dakar Rally, which gets underway on Sunday. Among the country’s hopefuls is Martin Prokop, who came sixth in the car category last year.
Also taking part will be Czech rally raid truck driver Aleš Loprais, who withdrew from last year’s race following an incident where a spectator died after being hit by his truck.
This year’s edition of the Dakar Rally is hosted for the fifth time by Saudi Arabia, with almost 800 participants competing on the approximately 8,000-kilometre route.
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01/04/2024
The summer semester at Prague’s Faculty of Arts will start on February 19, according to the original schedule, the faculty’s dean said at a press conference on Thursday. The faculty will remain closed at least until the end of January.
Teaching will take place in all of the faculty’s buildings, including the main building on Jan Palach Square. The only exception is the fourth floor of the building, which will probably remain closed for the entire summer semester.
More than 130 doors were destroyed in the tragic incident in which a student shot 14 people at the faculty on December 21. The cost of the overall damages to the building are now yet known.
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01/04/2024
A commemorative event to honour the memory of the victims of the tragic shooting at the Faculty of Arts took place in Prague on Thursday.
The event, organised by the faculty’s Student Council, started at 1 p.m. in front of the Carolinum building on Ovocný trh. From there, a silent procession led to the faculty’s main building on Jan Palach Square, where the tragic incident happened exactly two weeks ago.
The participants briefly stopped in Celetná Street, where they observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims. The programme ended with the participants forming a human chain around the faculty building.
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01/04/2024
The Telegram account which was widely reported to belong to the perpetrator of the mass shooting at Charles University's Faculty of Arts in December may not actually be his after all, Czech daily Deník N reports. According to their sources, the police are now 90 percent sure that the account does not in fact have anything to do with the killer.
Investigators are currently waiting for more information that they requested from Telegram, after which they will come to their final conclusion, but Deník N's sources said that so far, all the evidence points to the account not belonging to the perpetrator.
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01/04/2024
Some 60 places in Czechia were under flood alert on Thursday morning after several days of heavy rain and melting snow. The highest of the three flood alert levels was reported in Český Krumlov, while around ten measuring stations reported reaching the second level. Another 50 places had the lowest flood warning level.
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01/03/2024
Due to rising water levels in the Vltava, members of the public are no longer allowed to access the river's embankments in Prague as of 4 pm on Wednesday until further notice. Ferry services across the Vltava have also been suspended and the gates to the Four Seasons Hotel by the river near the Staroměstská tram stop have closed. The gates to the Čertovka canal in Prague's Malá Strana district, which have been closed since Christmas, will continue to be so.
Around 50 places in Czechia were under flood alert on Wednesday morning, with water at dangerously high levels especially in the Elbe and Otava rivers.
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